The March 2024 Xbox Partner Showcase crammed nearly a dozen new video game announcements into just 30 minutes, from the Stalker trilogy landing on console, to new indie games, monster trucks, Frostpunk 2, and a whole lot more. While most of the games shown off have vague 2024 or even 2025 release dates, a small handful are slated to launch in the next few months.
We’ve rounded up all the Xbox Partner Showcase announcements below.
Final Fantasy 14 Xbox release date
Square Enix is gearing up to launch Final Fantasy 14 on Xbox, just weeks after the MMO game’s beta went live. You can dive into Eorzea’s full experience – or the free trial – starting March 21, 2024.
Sleight of Hand
Riff Raff games revealed their new “third person, hard-boiled stealth sim” Sleight of Hand, an inventive noir story that follows a former detective-slash-witch as she tries getting even with the Coven that framed her for a heinous crime. Our hero uses smoke-based magic tied up in cards and can customize a deck with spells for every occasion. Expect this one in 2025 as a day-one launch on Xbox Game Pass.
The Sinking City 2
Frogwares is back with The Sinking City 2, and it looks a lot like what you’d expect from The Sinking City. Psychological horror, delusions, terrifying monsters, the whole shebang. The Sinking City 2 will release sometime in 2025.
The Alters
Here’s a different take on sci-fi. The Alters asks “what if you could only rely on yourself” and then makes you do it with dozens of copies of yourself. Jan, a miner, crash-lands on a hostile planet, and his only hope is a workstation designed for several people to operate. A rare substance on the planet lets Jan clone himself, with a catch – every clone is based on a major decision Jan made in his past. One is the Jan who never left home. Another is the Jan who actually tried to save his marriage. Your task becomes surviving the elements – and yourself.
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